In Defense of Twitter Poetry
Twitter is like a digital notebook for collecting observations, Rhys Nixon describes over at Entropy, making it an ideal platform for poetry and expression. Twitter also combines humor and absurdism,...
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Recently, Entropy began a joint venture with the press Civil Coping Mechanisms, and yesterday, the website launched, Their Days Are Numbered, a collaborative online novel that will be written by its...
View ArticleDon’t Judge a Book…
In the Court of Po Biz, I tend to relate to the jester.Over at Entropy, John Yohe does some quick name-checking and decides, a little cynically, by the blurb, that Robyn Schiff’s new book, A Woman of...
View ArticleSleeping with Monsters
Late the next night a noise roused me from my sleep—wailing and cursing and then banging, more banging than ever, both fists full-force against the plaster. Filtered through the sleep haze, I couldn’t...
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This Week in Essays
At Catapult, Toni Jensen writes a mesmerizing narrative of documenting assault and human trafficking intermixed with her experiences at Standing Rock and facing threats of violence. At Hazlitt,...
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Minda Honey writes at Longreads on traveling to detox from whiteness and discovering there is nearly nowhere to escape. Good news, New Yorkers: apparently noise can be good for creativity. Susie...
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For The New Inquiry, Nehal El-Hadi questions whether we will ever see technology that opens up the preservation of black life rather than simply documenting black death. Mina Hamedi chases the...
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Turkey Day is nearly here! At The Takeout, Aimee Levitt helps us digest the true origins of Thanksgiving. Another intensely good piece by Marcos Santiago Gonsalez, this time on the subjects of borders...
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For the New York Times, Lindy West brings wisdom to the conversation on consent, a conversation that has been taking place for a very long time. In 2016, South Koreans took to the streets to out their...
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At The Cut, Leni Zumas writes about her IVF experience and invites a more thoughtful of analysis of what is “natural” when it comes to motherhood. For Asymptote, Vladimir Lucien beautifully connects a...
View ArticleA Matriarchy of Bees: Q&A with Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
This month, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee accepted the role of Deputy Managing Editor here at The Rumpus. Prior to that, she had been a Features Editor for several months. Christine is the author of a...
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For Brevity, Allison K. Williams writes on the ways well-tended mental health and creative genius can coexist. Marie Myung-Ok Lee writes on the clash of politics and art during these heated times at...
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“It consumes you, the inability to stand still.” Alicia Rebecca Myers perambulates through obsessions, anxieties, Moby Dick, and new motherhood for Entropy. At The Offing, Shannon Barber, while...
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“It reflects a clear principle: Only the president and his allies, his supporters, and their anointed are entitled to the rights and protections of the law, and if necessary, immunity from it. The rest...
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For Vox, Alexa Kissinger delights in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ownership of her identity. At the Sonora Review, Zach Jacobs submerses himself in an archeological dig as he recovers from addiction. For...
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In an essay at Glamour, Lyz Lenz finds freedom from being taken for granted through her divorce. “My mom, the Sudafed socialite of Chicago,” muses Jessica Mooney at Entropy as she watches helplessly as...
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“I am a citizen playing dumb, I think. A Los Angeles-born Mexican with a Salvadoran mother spending a quiet Saturday morning witnessing the material convergence of art, monument, and xenophobia.” At...
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Molly Crabapple writes for the New York Review of Books on volunteering with an organization that assists individuals facing deportation. “I met her dear friends Lisa, Becky, and Tracy, all of whom...
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“Because you’ve learned, through skin-splitting experimentation, that when people are forced to view their flaws in the mirror, most look away.” At Lit Hub, Mateo Askaripour learns how to deal with...
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“I didn’t stop crying for days, and not because I’d made the wrong choice, but because sometimes the right choice hurts.” Christa Parravani writes on life and death and leaving and returning in West...
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